Vocabulary
A large organization that is structured hierarchically to carry out specific functions.
What is bureaucracy?
Legislative shift from patronage/spoils system to a merit based system.
What is the Pendleton Act?
The federal agency responsible for fairness in free markets, particularly the stock market
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?
Presidential Appointments to Bureaucratic Agencies need this check
What is Senate Confirmation?
The Secretary of State, Defense, Homeland and the Vice President are typically part of this EOP brain structure
What is the National Security Council?
An official Index of all public hearings and administrative laws and decisions by the bureaucracy
What is Federal Register?
Bureaucrats can not actively campaign on the job (or hold offices within a party)
What is the Hatch Act?
This Agency created through Executive Directive to congress that undertakes programs aimed at reducing air and water pollution; it works with state and local agencies to help.
What is the EPA?
The President must create this document for Congress to appropriate (or shut down the government)
What is the Budget?
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974
The bureaucracy and Congress both have these groups that benefit from Policy Created on the Agenda. VOCAB
What are Clientele Groups?
Legislators, interest groups, bureaucrats scholars, and experts, and members of the media who share a position on a given issue may attempt to exert influence on the executive branch. The alliances are not permanent.
What is issue network?
IRON TRIANGLES ARE MORE PERMANENT..LIKE TOBACCO, OIL, or HEALTHCARE.
This legislation protects federal employees from retaliation if they report misconduct or law breaking in the various agencies (You cannot do a Snowden and go to the Press)
What is Whistle-blower Protection Act?
This department contains units such as the Federal Aviation Administration and the Federal Highway System
What is the Department of Transportation?
The process of hearing Congressional testimony from the various agencies to check implementation and possible wrongdoing of the bureaucracy.
What is Congressional OVERSIGHT?
The nickname of the necessary administrative process in a complex, hierarchical structure
What is Red Tape?
Laws requiring that existing programs be reviewed regularly for their effectiveness and be terminated unless specifically extended as a result of these reviews.
What is sunset legislation?
The Act that made discrimination in voting illegal under the 14th and 15th Amendment enforcement clause
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This government corporation was formed by a SPECIFIC enumerated power of Congress (not a necessary and proper expansion of power)
What is the United States Postal Service?
The money brains of the president who create the budget, look for duplication, and follow executive intent.
What is the Office of Management and Budget?
This person is often seen as the Mouth of President in the White House Office; Biden's mouth is Jen Psaki
Who is the Press Secretary?
This individual at the DOJ initiates and defends lawsuits of the United States. (Not the Attorney General)
What is the Solicitor General?
The Act that was challenged under Marbury v. Madison (Yep...this is a 500 Question)
What is the Judiciary Act of 1789?
This agency was created under the Federal Elections Campaign Act of 1974.
What is the Federal Elections Commission? (VOCAB)
The Act that allows the public to serve as a check on the Bureaucracy by providing the public the right to request access to records from any federal agency.
What is the Freedom of Information Act?
The Spoils System was replaced with (for the most part) with the Merit System with the assassination of this President
Who is Garfield?